Loving that Rosa Sweet Honey & Clematis Burning Love combo @pitter-patter. Beautiful pot @Elfer - I really like the dark leaved lobelias and you've used it to great effect here. Gorgeous borders @AnniD and great pics @1634 Racine. Looooove the colour of the St.Swithun's rose @Janie B. There's something very romantic about it. Love it so much I just had to google it but the pics I've come across so far don't seem to have the same kind of pale dusky pink of yours. And now I am all caught up with everyone's lovely plants and gardens. And - woohoo - it looks as if the rain has stopped!
@Fire My dahlias are suffering quite badly from slug damage as well. The flowers still look nice and I’m hoping the leaves will grow back fast enough. 😞
This post is purely for historic information which may be of interest to some of you. I have recently read two books by Philippa Gregory about gardeners to some of the people in high places and King Charles 1. The gardeners being John Tradescant Senior and his son John the younger. They would travel to foreign countries to bring back plants that no one had seen in the UK. How the plants survived on lengthy boat journeys I don't know but I think they showed a box invented for the purpose on GW recently. (Could be wrong there). Anyway I didn't realise at first that they were people who had existed in the 1600's until later and then "Tradescantia" crops up in the thread which must date back to those times and named after them. Would recommend the books as there is so much about gardening at that time which doesn't differ much to today.
@pitter-patter I think I might want your entire garden. Every time I come back on here I find myself oohing and ahhing at your plants.
This is a corner that I couldn't decide what to do with last year. Everything seems happy enough so I'll probably just fill it with more of the same. There's an agapanthus in the corner that's getting ready to flower - they also seem to like this bed - and lots of verbena lollipop have self seeded, so this bed will look very different in a month's time again.
In the background lots of cardboard. All the cardboard. Trying to prep a new bed for planting. Will add the compost on top next week.
In the foreground alstromeria and behind that the perennial foxglove that I rescued from a garden centre. It was in the reduced section. I cut the main stem down and now all of these others have appeared. It will hopefully soon be taller than the alstromeria.
Photobomb by stipa gigantea.
Can't quite capture the level of froth in this photo - ceanothus Marie Simon either side of the hibiscus.
A close up to show the pink froth. Photbombing this time is peony of unknown origin...
@Fran IOM I found that book very interesting Fran, as you say it doesn't differ much from todays methods. Amazing that he was the first person to bring over Horse Chestnut trees,and that they were highly sought after in the gardens of the Stately homes.
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@Eustace What a lovely find! Do you know what birds the nest belongs to? I love the blue of those eggs.
No, I do not know. Someone more knowledgeable will be around to tell us, I'm sure. Moved away from there as quickly as possible so as not to disturb the parents if they're around. Lovely blue eggs
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Gorgeous borders @AnniD and great pics @1634 Racine.
Looooove the colour of the St.Swithun's rose @Janie B. There's something very romantic about it. Love it so much I just had to google it but the pics I've come across so far don't seem to have the same kind of pale dusky pink of yours.
And now I am all caught up with everyone's lovely plants and gardens. And - woohoo - it looks as if the rain has stopped!
@Fire My dahlias are suffering quite badly from slug damage as well. The flowers still look nice and I’m hoping the leaves will grow back fast enough. 😞
I have recently read two books by Philippa Gregory about gardeners to some of the people in high places and King Charles 1. The gardeners being John Tradescant Senior and his son John the younger. They would travel to foreign countries to bring back plants that no one had seen in the UK. How the plants survived on lengthy boat journeys I don't know but I think they showed a box invented for the purpose on GW recently. (Could be wrong there). Anyway I didn't realise at first that they were people who had existed in the 1600's until later and then "Tradescantia" crops up in the thread which must date back to those times and named after them. Would recommend the books as there is so much about gardening at that time which doesn't differ much to today.
This is a corner that I couldn't decide what to do with last year. Everything seems happy enough so I'll probably just fill it with more of the same. There's an agapanthus in the corner that's getting ready to flower - they also seem to like this bed - and lots of verbena lollipop have self seeded, so this bed will look very different in a month's time again.
In the background lots of cardboard. All the cardboard. Trying to prep a new bed for planting. Will add the compost on top next week.
In the foreground alstromeria and behind that the perennial foxglove that I rescued from a garden centre. It was in the reduced section. I cut the main stem down and now all of these others have appeared. It will hopefully soon be taller than the alstromeria.
Photobomb by stipa gigantea.
Can't quite capture the level of froth in this photo - ceanothus Marie Simon either side of the hibiscus.
A close up to show the pink froth. Photbombing this time is peony of unknown origin...
I found that book very interesting Fran, as you say it doesn't differ much from todays methods. Amazing that he was the first person to bring over Horse Chestnut trees,and that they were highly sought after in the gardens of the Stately homes.
No, I do not know. Someone more knowledgeable will be around to tell us, I'm sure. Moved away from there as quickly as possible so as not to disturb the parents if they're around. Lovely blue eggs